St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-04

register SHOWS lilaU men NAVE SltIlcO
from New York, stopping in Chicago
proceeded to Springfield and thence
continued TO the Pacific coast, bent on
an errand of so-called mercy in respect
of the condemned anarchists. The Le-
land hotel book in Springfield, H., the
capital of the state. is to-day and has
for the past three days been burdened
with the names of lawyers, clergymen
newspaper correspondents and cranks,
and each and every one of whom de-
clared his errand to be in respect OF
this one vital topic. The governor bears
himself well. He is old. but virile
He approaches the end of his official
term and the end of his official life. and
as was suggested yesterday in these dis.
patches, if some way could be opened by
which his last significant act might be
one of mercy ana consideration fol
those in trouble, it would crafty his i'll
dividualistic heart beyond the power OF
words to describe. But as is shown
above, unless he initiates as from SOW
ereign fount acts of clemency, there is
no tangible ground OH which he can
place his official foot. His near friends
insist, and with showing of reason, that
it would be infinitely absurd for him tC
act and unreasonable to expect that he
would assume to act.
Matters remaining as they are, there
fore, it is that the friends and counsel
Ors of the anarchists, brushing away
with the bosom of common sense their
Pig Head Obstinacy,
their stubborness, their impertinent re-
fusal to accept even the verdict of the
jury, are devising to-day ways and
means by which door of legitimate ac-
ton may be opened in the presence OF
the governor. There Will be petitions
galore and wouldn't be surprised to
find some of these high-headed. ObSti-
nate men melted by the tears and
grOans of the women who are dependent
upon them for life and for support and
at the last moment give in to that strain
of public sentiment which finds out
cropping in many of the Illinois papers
to-day SO that the governor may be COM
PEELED then to grant respite to them all
and extend clemency to the few. Such
sentences as this are pregnant with
meaning and ] find them in nearly all
the Chicago papers to-day. The case is
now in the hands of just and true
officer 1t is for him to do as seems best
unto him. For months the voice of the
people has been in his ears. 1t is low,
strong voice, not clamoring for
vengeance, but desiring that mercy
shall not superSede justice. and ready
to acquieSe in his judgmt Mt should he
deem it wise to temper justice with
mercy.
In other words, say what they may,
the very papers that have charged
Mayor Roche
With COwardice
and that Sneer at him because he ex-
pressed sympathy for them. while he
expressly disclaimed the fainteSt SYM
pathy with the criminals, are touched
by a subtle sense of fear. for although
the surface of this fair town is undiS-
turbed, metaDhOrically speaking | mean,
for the streets are in a beaStly condi-
ton, there is an undercurrent of wOn-
der, awe and apprehension. Were 1t
not so, would the police be manipulated
as they are a whole week before the day
of execution? Would the United States
troops be thrown here by most fOrtuit-
Gus circumstances just at this time?
Would all the papers i'll Chicago begin
all at once to make excuses and to prove
by reference TO their files that they
never. never said anything that could
hurt the feelings of these condemned?
Why. find in one of them to-day, the
Tribune,
The Following:
The New York World of Sunday last con
tanned a dispatch from this city setting forth
the alleged operations of a suspicious
stranger who had gained access to the
county jail, had communicated with the an
archist prisoners and subsequently made
notes of the details of the structure, which
were found i'll possession of boy who was
arrested and is now in confinement at the
police station. The dispatch is intended to
convey the impression that there is an an
archist plot either TO rescue the prisoners or
blow up the jail. The whole story is pure
fabrication and its sensational character was
exposed i'll the Tribune of Sunday last 1t
originally appeared i'll some reckless sheet
the World and teleSraphed to ii without any
efforts to verify its wholly improbable state
menIs The whole thinf is pure invention
faxed up for sensational purposes. Other
stories OF a similar character are appearing
in eastern papers that have no more foun-
papers protesting TO be reliable should give
space 10 such lies. They must be hard driven
in keeping mp public interest 10 Tesor, TO the
publication of these manufactured state
ments.i
And Also This.
At an anarchist meeting held in Detroit
recently one of the speakers. a man by the
lldDlt VI 1tODllSOll, ttdQ " ulS duulelicc
extracts from various news
papers advocating cruelty TO tramps and un-
fortunates. The fellow read what he alleged
TO be advice from the Chicago Tribune that
men who begged slice of bread be givenN
with strychnine on il. The Tribune has once
or twice before explained this false charge
so that no man who was not fool or knave
could fail 10 understand it. Some fifteen
years ago a humorous correspondent of this
paper suggested in an ironical way that
good scheme for getting rid OF tramps would
be to put strychnine on their bread. 1t was
purely piece of badinaSe. intended as such,
and no more to be taken in earnest than was
Dean Swift's recommendation that theIrish
should boil their babies for food. The Trib-
une never recommended or endorsed such a
project or anything ike IL, and the anachist
who al this late day repeats the ly-
ing charge is knave who has perverted d
satire into an editorial
showing himself to be a
malicious libeler trying to infiaMe the minds
Jf his ignorant dupes.
And in yesterdays Inter Ocean, if 1